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IPL 2023

The last date for the all franchises to retain and release players for the Indian Premier League 2023 edition ended on Tuesday, 15th November 2022.

Overall, teams retained one-hundred sixty-three players and released eighty five players. 

As expected, Mumbai Indians released the most number of players among all the franchises.  They suffered eight successive losses in the tournament and ended last on the IPL 2022 points table which was an alarming situation.

Also, Franchises other than Mumbai Indians did not retain some high profile players ahead of the IPL 2023 season. 

Mumbai Indians’ star all-rounder Keiron Pollard and Chennai Super Kings’ one of most valuable players were not retained.

There were various other key players who were released by their franchises. Sunrisers Hyderabad released Nicholas Pooran, Kane Williamson, Priyam Garg, Romario Shepherd.

Punjab Kings did not retain all-rounder Odean Smith, ex-captain Mayank Agarwal and Gujarat Titans did not retain left-handed batter Dominic Drakes, Kiwi’s speedster Lockie Gerguson.

Lucknow Super Giants freed all-rounder Jason Holder, top-order batter Evin Lewis, one of India’s fittest players Manish Pandey.

Royal Challengers Bangalore, released least number of players from their existing squad,  retained eighteen players and let go of only five players,

Certainly, it will be an engaging IPL 2023 mini-auction on 23 December, 2022 in Kochi for the franchisees having larger purse amounts.

Here is the list of players that were retained & released from their existing squad from all the IPL franchises with remaining purse amount:

     
CHENNAI SUPER KINGS
Retained Players Released Players Remaining Purse
MS Dhoni ©Mitchell SantnerDwayne Bravo INR 20.45 crore
Devon ConwayRavindra JadejaRobin Uthappa  
Ruturaj GaikwadTushar DeshpandeAdam Milne  
Ambati RayuduMukesh ChowdharyHari Nishaanth  
Subhranshu SenapatiMatheesha PathiranaChris Jordan  
Moeen AliSimarjeet SinghBhagath Varma  
Shivam DubeDeepak ChaharKM Asif  
Rajvardhan HangargekarPrashant SolankiNarayan Jagadeesan  
Dwaine PretoriusMaheesh Theekshana   
     
     
MUMBAI INDIANS
Retained Players Released Players Remaining Purse
Rohit Sharma ©Arshad KhanKieron PollardMayank MarkandeINR 20.55 crore
Tim DavidKumar KartikeyaAnmolpreet SinghMurugan Ashwin 
Ramandeep SinghHrithik ShokeenAryan JuyalRahul Buddhi 
Tilak VarmaJason BehrendorffBasil ThampiRiley Meredith 
Suryakumar YadavAkash MadhwalDaniel SamsSanjay Yadav 
Ishan KishanJasprit BumrahFabian AllenTymal Mills 
Tristan StubbsArjun TendulkarJaydev Unadkat  
Dewald BrevisJason Behrendorff (Traded from RCB)   
Jofra Archer    
     
     
KOLKATA KNIGHT RIDERS
Retained Players Released Players Remaining Purse
Shreyas Iyer ©Tim SoutheePat CumminsAbhijeet TomarINR 7.05 crore
Nitish RanaHarshit RanaSam BillingsAjinkya Rahane 
Venkatesh IyerVarun ChakravarthyAman Khan (traded)Ashok Sharma 
Andre RussellAnukul RoyShivam MaviBaba Indrajith 
Sunil NarineRinku SinghMohammad NabiPratham Singh 
Umesh Yadav Chamika KarunaratneRamesh Kumar 
Shardul Thakur (Traded from DC) Aaron FinchRasikh Salam 
Rahmanullah Gurbaz (Traded from GT) Alex HalesSheldon Jackson 
Lockie Ferguson (Traded from GT)    
     
     
DELHI CAPITALS
Retained Players Released Players Remaining Purse
Rishabh Pant ©Anrich NortjeShardul Thakur (traded) INR 19.45 crore
David WarnerChetan SakariyaTim Seifert  
Prithvi ShawKamlesh NagarkotiAshwin Hebbar  
Ripal PatelKhaleel AhmedSrikar Bharat  
Rovman PowellLungi NgidiMandeep Singh  
Sarfaraz KhanMustafizur Rahman   
Yash DhullAman Khan   
Mitchell MarshKuldeep Yadav   
Lalit YadavPraveen Dubey   
Axar PatelVicky Ostwal   
     
     
LUCKNOW SUPER GIANTS
Retained Players Released Players Remaining Purse
KL Rahul ©Kyle MayersAndrew Tye INR 23.35 crore
Ayush BadoniKrunal PandyaAnkit Rajpoot  
Karan SharmaAvesh KhanDushmantha Chameera  
Manan VohraMohsin KhanEvin Lewis  
Quinton de KockMark WoodJason Holder  
Marcus StoinisMayank YadavManish Pandey  
Krishnappa GowthamRavi BishnoiShahbaz Nadeem  
Deepak Hooda    
     
     
     
     
ROYAL CHALLENGERS BANGALORE
Retained Players Released Players Remaining Purse
Faf du Plessis (c)Shahbaz AhmedJason Behrendorff (traded) INR 8.75 crore
Virat KohliHarshal PatelAneeshwar Gautam  
Suyash PrabhudessaiDavid WilleyChama Milind  
Rajat PatidarKarn SharmaLuvnith Sisodia  
Dinesh KarthikMahipal LomrorSherfane Rutherford  
Anuj RawatMohammed Siraj   
Finn AllenJosh Hazlewood   
Glenn MaxwellSiddarth Kaul   
Wanindu HasarangaAkash Deep   
     
     
SUNRISERS HYDERABAD
Retained Players Released Players Remaining Purse
Abdul SamadWashington SundarKane WilliamsonSaurabh DubeINR 42.25 crore
Aiden MarkramFazalhaq FarooqiNicholas PooranSean Abbott 
Rahul TripathiKartik TyagiJagadeesha SuchithShashank Singh 
Glenn PhillipsBhuvneshwar KumarPriyam GargShreyas Gopal 
Abhishek SharmaT NatarajanRavikumar SamarthSushant Mishra 
Marco JansenUmran MalikRomario ShepherdVishnu Vinod 
     
     
     
     
     
RAJASTHAN ROYALS
Retained Players Released Players Remaining Purse
Sanju Samson ©Trent BoultAnunay SinghNathan Coulter-NileINR 13.2 crore
Yashasvi JaiswalObed McCoyCorbin BoschRassie van der Dussen 
Shimron HetmyerNavdeep SainiDaryl MitchellShubham Garhwal 
Devdutt PadikkalKuldeep SenJames NeeshamTejas Baroka 
Jos ButtlerKuldip YadavKarun Nair  
Dhruv JurelR Ashwin   
Riyan ParagYuzvendra Chahal   
Prasidh KrishnaKC Cariappa   
     
     
     
PUNJAB KINGS
Retained Players Released Players Remaining Purse
Shikhar Dhawan ©Liam LivingstoneMayank AgarwalAnsh PatelINR 32.2 crore
Shahrukh KhanAtharva TaideOdean SmithPrerak Mankad 
Jonny BairstowArshdeep SinghVaibhav AroraSandeep Sharma 
Prabhsimran SinghBaltej SinghBenny HowellWrittick Chatterjee 
Bhanuka RajapaksaNathan EllisIshan Porel  
Jitesh SharmaKagiso Rabada   
Raj BawaRahul Chahar   
Rishi DhawanHarpreet Brar   
     
     
     
     
GUJARAT TITANS
Retained Players Released Players Remaining Purse
Hardik Pandya ©Vijay ShankarRahmanullah Gurbaz (traded) INR 19.25 crore
Shubman GillMohammed ShamiLockie Ferguson (traded)  
David MillerAlzarri JosephDominic Drakes  
Abhinav ManoharYash DayalGurkeerat Singh  
Sai SudharsanPradeep SangwanJason Roy  
Wriddhiman SahaDarshan NalkandeVarun Aaron  
Matthew WadeJayant Yadav   
Rashid KhanR Sai Kishore   
Rahul TewatiaNoor Ahmad   

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